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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by…
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Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume…
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To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the…
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A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has…
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I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.
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The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
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The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite…
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The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.
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A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
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I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism…
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Books are not life, only its ashes.
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One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is…
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
— Theodor Adorno
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken…
— Samuel Johnson
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Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He…
— Rajneesh
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
— Carl Jung
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You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real…
— Rosalind Franklin
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Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of…
— Fred Hoyle
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Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And…
— Rajneesh
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The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be…
— George W. Bush
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Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.
— Aristotle
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